Cars and Coffee Southlake!

"TheDutchTexan" (TheDutchTexan) 02/01/2020 at 16:39 • Filed to: TheDutchTexan, Cars And Coffee, GT500

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I actually didn’t go to Cars and Coffee Southlake for months. The weather, getting sick, having a wisdom tooth taken out. Everything just happened to be on the car show dates. Figures right? But we’re back fresh in 2020 at a “special” location.

To be completely transparent: I wasn’t even planning on going. I liked their other location, and a new location is always a gamble. In the end I was happy happy I did go because there were some great cars in attendance . The GT500 made it as the cover car, but I nearly put the Lancia Delta Integrale there instead. But since I had done that already in a past one and I wanted to highlight a different car also dear to my heart. It was beautiful inside and out.

On the exit shots: Some people went a bit too far. I never edge people on, that just isn’t my style. But I am more a fan of clean pulls then car-show ending burnouts. Another thing I absolutely hated was the fact that the lights there were equipped with beepers for the blind. Great for blind people, and they should be on every intersection, but super annoying on the video editing side. I could eliminate most of it, but some were stubborn, hidden in the audio. Still a 100% better than it would have been had I not gone through the effort of cleaning it up. The outtakes are raw footage, and you can hear the beep in its full glory. It was maddening... But it was also the only place I could get decent shots. The exit point at that location was downright dangerous . The road surface was left a lot to be desired and business exits all over. Big nope there.

NKato > TheDutchTexan 02/01/2020 at 20:11

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Get a shotgun microphone. It'll help avoid the beeps ands make sound capture more directed. 

TheDutchTexan > NKato 02/01/2020 at 23:58

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I have been thinking about it, but the main problem is that people have lost audio that way. Forgot to turn their mic on, didn’t charge it, or had it improperly jacked in. I can’t take that chance. It would ruin my day knowing I wasted all that time for no video. For me the audio works 100% of the time. Just got to deal with stuff like that beeping in that case or wind noise which will ruin footage too , and can’t be fixed to the same degree as these beeps or brake squeal . It shows up as a very distinctive noise pattern that can be deleted. If an exhaust is loud enough it overpowers all that ambient noise. But if not... Well... There I go, stuck in audio editing land! I am not going to lie, I was DONE when I finished the video. I briefly thought about treating the outtakes but said nope... They are outtakes for a reason.

pip bip - choose Corrour > TheDutchTexan 02/02/2020 at 02:42

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the only car of all those that do it for me was the R32 Nissan GTR

TheDutchTexan > pip bip - choose Corrour 02/03/2020 at 21:09

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That was a great sounding car for sure! Wish he took that corner I was posted for a more direct path to RB goodness!